by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 1, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Here’s a stock market trading strategy: Buy rising stocks and sell falling stocks. It’s simple. It makes sense. But it’s easier said than done. Enter our featured indicator of the week. It executes this simple trading strategy in a more rigorous and analytical...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 24, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Interest rates matter for stock prices. This is something you hear all the time in the financial ecosystem. But not all interest rates are created equal. So, for this week’s featured indicator, we focus on a very short-term type of interest rate—called a T-Bill...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 17, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week we look at what we call a “credit spread” indicator. A credit spread indicator gets its name from the fact that it measures the difference between a safe asset, like a U.S. Treasury bond, and a debt security of the same maturity but with lower credit...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 10, 2021 | Indicator Insights
In the current era of meme stocks, it can be easy to forget that the underlying companies in the stock market are real businesses with real profits and cashflows—and that sometimes they choose to pay those cashflows out to investors in the form of dividends....
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 3, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Does government policy matter to the stock market? According to our featured indicator this week—the Real Monetary, Fiscal, and Exchange Rate Policy Index—the answer is a resounding yes. The policy index is a combination of the year-to-year change of the real...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 27, 2021 | Indicator Insights
You can describe the idea of a “thrust” in numerous ways. A sudden or violent lunge comes to mind, like the propulsive force produced by a rocket or a jet plane. But in the world of finance, we have a more technical definition: a lot of stocks going up in a...
